Iraqi security forces and government affiliated militias appear to have unlawfully executed at least 255 prisoners over the past month in apparent revenge for killings by Islamic State fighters, according to a rights group on Saturday....

"The mass extrajudicial killings may be evidence of war crimes or crimes against humanity, and appear to be revenge killings for atrocities by (Islamic State),"

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Surviving an Islamic State Massacre (Extra Scene from ‘Shia Militias Vs. The Islamic State\')
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Rights group Islamic State massacred 600 Shias

published:31 Oct 2014

Rights group Islamic State massacred 600 Shias

Rights group Islamic State massacred 600 Shias

published:31 Oct 2014

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An international human rights organization says the Islamic State militant group executed about 600 Shia Muslims in June near the Iraqi city of Mosul.
The New York-based Human Rights Watch on Thursday condemned the killings as war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Citing accounts from some survivors, the rights group says the Islamic State trucked away around 1,500 inmates from a prison near Mosul when it took control of the city in June.
About 600 Shias were then separated from the Sunnis and Christians and taken to the edge of a cliff, where they were forced to sit in a line and showered with machine gun fire.
30 to 40 of them survived the massacre by rolling into the valley and pretending to be dead, or by being shielded by the bodies of other prisoners.
In Iraq, there seems to be no end to the string of atrocities stemming from sectarian strife.
Iraqi government forces reportedly killed at least 255 Sunni Muslims, mostly prison inmates, from June onwards in Mosul and 5 other municipalities....

Rights group Islamic State massacred 600 Shias

published:31 Oct 2014

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An international human rights organization says the Islamic State militant group executed about 600 Shia Muslims in June near the Iraqi city of Mosul.
The New York-based Human Rights Watch on Thursday condemned the killings as war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Citing accounts from some survivors, the rights group says the Islamic State trucked away around 1,500 inmates from a prison near Mosul when it took control of the city in June.
About 600 Shias were then separated from the Sunnis and Christians and taken to the edge of a cliff, where they were forced to sit in a line and showered with machine gun fire.
30 to 40 of them survived the massacre by rolling into the valley and pretending to be dead, or by being shielded by the bodies of other prisoners.
In Iraq, there seems to be no end to the string of atrocities stemming from sectarian strife.
Iraqi government forces reportedly killed at least 255 Sunni Muslims, mostly prison inmates, from June onwards in Mosul and 5 other municipalities....

An international human rights organization says the Islamic State militant group executed about 600 Shia Muslims in June near the Iraqi city of Mosul.
The New York-based Human Rights Watch on Thursday condemned the killings as war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Citing accounts from some survi

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